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Yeltsin was furious at the Congress for refusing to confirm acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, his handpicked architect of reform. When confronted with a stark choice of submitting or facing the President at the ballot box, the balky Deputies under leader Ruslan Khasbulatov became more inclined to deal. So, on reflection, did Yeltsin. By week's end he had agreed to submit three candidates for Prime Minister and modified his referendum. Although a popular vote would still be Yeltsin's to lose, Russians will not be asked to choose directly between him and the Congress. Instead, they will determine...
...moderate opponents who want to slow down economic change. Some are acting under the wings of the parliament. Some are regrouping in the provinces, in old trade unions and local government councils. Some are in the government itself, like conservative Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, or the outspoken parliamentarian Ruslan Khasbulatov, who was elected speaker as Yeltsin's ally but now spearheads the charge to reduce the power of the presidency. So far, none has emerged as an alternative center of power, but together they act as a substantial drag on the parlous progress of reform...
...Congress of People's Deputies, where the dominant communists plan to seek the government's resignation and a curb on free-market reforms. In his other show of clout, Yeltsin chose to disband a 5,000-strong police force controlled by one of his major rivals, legislative speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. Ironically, the so-called Cardinal's Guard was originally formed to protect the Russian legislative building after last year's failed coup. Yeltsin began calling the force an "illegal armed unit" after it was deployed at the offices of the newspaper Izvestia -- once the official Soviet mouthpiece but today...
Yeltsin's aides, some of whom were also heroes of the revolution, have been no help in resolving this confusion. On the contrary, they frequently squabble among themselves. Ruslan Khasbulatov, apparently annoyed by the failure of other Yeltsin supporters to back him for the still unfilled position of chairman of parliament, lashed out at State Secretary Gennadi Burbulis and State Counselor Sergei Shakhrai. He called them "kids who are simply not mature enough for politics...
Otherwise, nothing happened. During the daylight hours Tuesday, Ruslan Khasbulatov, first deputy chairman of the supreme soviet of the Russian Federation and a close Yeltsin adviser, was on the phone to KGB chief Kryuchkov and Defense Minister Yazov. He asked them point-blank if the junta planned to storm the White House. "Yazov did not deny it," he reported. Late Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning, Gennadi Burbulis, another Yeltsin aide, spoke twice more with Kryuchkov. Finally Kryuchkov promised, "You can sleep soundly." There would be no shoot...